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"Take a Look Inside Carrie Fisher&amp;#39;s Spanish-Style Residence in Beverly Hills\nThe actress&amp;#39;s hip museum of a house in the Hollywood Hills, an ode to the obsessive joy of collecting, is as charming, imaginative, original, and fun as Fisher herself\nA porch fronts the entrance. \u201CI found the big foot at a store on Beverly Boulevard in L.A.,\u201D she says.\n\u201CThe architecture is early California Spanish with a heavy showbiz influence,\u201D says actress and author Carrie Fisher of her 1919 Beverly Hills house.\n\u201CIt\u2019s a long house, with one room leading straight into another,\u201D says Fisher. \u201CEerily absent are hallways.\u201D\nFisher keeps her collection of animal portraits in the living room. \u201CMy daughter, Billie, used to do shows under the arch for a captive audience,\u201D she remembers. Beyond the arch, whose decorative painting was done by artist Michael Foulkrod, is the dining room.\nFamily portraits rest on the mantel in Fisher\u2019s bedroom, over which hangs a work by Donald Roller Wilson. At right is a picture of the actress\u2019s mother, Debbie Reynolds, with Joan Crawford. The wood frames \u201Cwere bought over the years at an antiques center in Chelsea.\u201D\n\u201CI was once told you could tell what you wanted from your life by looking at the walls of your bedroom,\u201D says Fisher. \u201CIf this is the case, I\u2019m in a lot of trouble.\u201D She refers to the selection of paintings depicting children as \u201Ca difficult and costly collection to increase.\u201D\nThe den, or red room, is filled with gifts from friends. \u201CThe little chest-of-drawers table is from Penny Marshall, the round table was given to me by Amy Pascal, and the jukebox, which plays 100 of my favorite CDs, is from Dr. Arnold Klein.\u201D\nThe rear porch is home to Mexican pottery left behind by previous owner Edith Head.\nThe guesthouse. \u201CA friend and I did the landscape design\u2014largely after dark,\u201D Fisher notes. \u201CWe call ourselves the After 11 Landscaping Company. We are our only clients.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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